Thoughts on BC Politics and More

There has been much commentary on the passage of Bill C-13 which gives the governing Liberals extensive spending powers through to September 30 th , 2020. The opposition has been criticized for allowing this to take place. Time for a reality check. Parliament is due to return from recess on April 20 th , just 21 days from today. The Commons chambers cannot fit 338 MPs and conform to social distancing rules currently in effect or comply with the prohibition on large gatherings. The emergency session held on March 24 th recognized the problems and had an agreed number of MPs present to minimize infection risk. I expect the spring session will be postponed until there are clear signs that the coronavirus threat has diminished substantially. We do not know the economic impact of the coronavirus social d...

The current state of affairs makes some very important points First, we have been given an object lesson in just how puny our geopolitical systems are. The UN (Useless Nations) dithered and pontificated and pretended that its announcement that we are dealing with a pandemic was significant. Sorry to throw cold water on the cluster of idiots at the UN but a synonym for ‘pandemic’ is ‘widespread’. As soon as we had a half-dozen nations with Coronavirus victims, we had a pandemic. The UN belatedly voiced the obvious. Second , a key role of the UN is to bring affected nation together to create a reasoned approach to a communicable infection that we need to pool our resources to combat. Epic fail. We did not put our best brains to work on a common problem. Like it or not, the first word nations, the industrial giants, the nations the UN despises and is desperately trying to bring to bring to heel will develop the vaccine, the antidote that will save the world (again). Third ,...